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Mary Williams

1967–

United States

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Mary Luana Williams (born October 13, 1967) is an American social activist and author. She is known for writing The Lost Daughter: A Memoir about her life. The memoir details being adopted by Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden in her adolescence, as well as growing up as a daughter of the Black Panthers before Fonda adopted her.

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